Oogitrey now never alone

Metamorphosed for some presumptuous act

In the 90’s, guest artist Wilbur Walden Reeling created “Thogg’s Neck, Part 2” for Geranium Lake Properties. When asked, he claimed the title was based on an old New Yorker cartoon (circa 1954-59) titled “Throggs Neck” by Saul Steinberg. Throggs Neck is a neighborhood, peninsula and bridge located in the Bronx, New York.

Follow the old legend closely, and bless the faithless

Forty Leaves

An Open Letter to My Republican Friends

Ain't Gonna Play Your Cheatin' Game No More

I have been trying to recover from the emotional upheaval caused by our disastrous presidential election.

Tarnished with reminders of spurious umbrage

The misprints of "Laid Down Gin"

On the back of the original drawing, Yost wrote in pencil: "brand new key unlocks them both".

Twice in murk and occidental damp

Why a Pit Bull Makes the Perfect Pet for Children

With All Lona Tomical

Parecem não ter fim

Hunkered down against a chunk of the untethered calico cross

(1) Latest version
(2) Later version
(3) Early version

Delft Y-Block Upright

Launder a Misapprehension

Lighthouse

Full Quill Ostrich, Straightcut and Manhattanized

This is another collaboration between Yost and Ha Kim Ngoc. A few months later, Yost published a sequel.

Adorned with three different papers

Not yet recovered from a meal with antique philosophers

A sober and squeak-free summons

The people who admire GLP are a discerning but small group, and at various points in the last three years I have created fictional fans to swell the numbers of our tiny band of brothers and sisters. Plus I needed help writing the backstory of Geranium Lake Properties, and creating characters is an excellent first step to writing fiction. (The danger is that if you have too much fun writing characters you may lose motivation to plod onward with the relatively boring task of actually writing the story.) GLP's foremost fictional fan is Ha Kim Ngoc, one of those amazing American hybrids, a daughter and granddaughter of Vietnamese, Korean, Polish and Welsh immigrants.

Before she became Yost's assistant in 1991, Ha Kim Ngoc was writing and drawing "Somnifery", a comic strip influenced by Carlos Castaneda, Goya's Black Paintings, Lorca's theory of duende, and Little Nemo in Slumberland. "Somnifery" appeared irregularly in different zines during the 80's, notably Spongesucker, Ralph and Fascia. At the same time, Ngoc collaborated with Yost on a handful of GLP comics.

The ideogram in the lower right-hand corner of today's panel is a tribute to Harriet Lariat, a pseudonym used by Ngoc's Polish grandmother and her grandmother's sister-in-law, the writer/artist team who created Sue Generous and Bossy Oyster, a 64-page Golden Age comic book. The comic followed the crime-fighting adventures of a glamorous American housewife and her plucky Jack Russell terrier (loosely based on the characters of Nora Charles and her dog Astor from the Thin Man movies). Each issue featured several different stories, all the captions were written in Polish, while the speech balloons were in English. The authors hoped to educate Polish immigrants who were eager to immerse themselves in American culture. The title was printed by Eastern Color Printing and enjoyed a modest success within its target audience, published from 1937 to 1941, with a total of 31 issues.